Industrial Development in Aswan

Third: Roads and Transportation
Transport networks and roads of Aswan indicate the distinguished
longitudinal and transverse axes correspond to the geographical nature of
the flow of the River Nile, which needs to join its side and the neighboring
governorates of with the regional road network which can described as
follows:
1. Cairo/Aswan Road (East of Nile), is a road with two lanes of traffic and
with a width 3.75 m for each lane and the shoulders with width of 300
m on each side of the road for 852 km and the state of the pavement is
good and provided with signs and the design capacity of this
road is10.000 vehicle / day.
2. Cairo/ Assuit/Aswan (desert /West Nile). A road which was
completed in the distance between Cairo and Assiut with the length
of 587 km including links‐offs. Assiut – Sohag road is to be implemented
withalengthof100KmthenitextendstosouthtoreachAswanCity
and this road is far from the west of the Nile about 2 km and has two
lanes, each lane\s width is 3.75 m and side shoulders of 30 m and the
design capacity is 10000/ vehicle per day. This road has to be
implemented in order to reach Aswan because the east of Nile road
becomes crowded.
3. Aswan/AbouSimble/HelfaValleyRoadwithalengthof315kmandtwo
lanes with a width of 3.75 for the lane and side shoulders of 300 m for
each side, well paved and provided with signs. The road's design
capacity reaches 10000 vehicles per day and traffic is low and it is a part
of Cairo/ Giron International Road.
4. Aswan/Brines/Shalateen/Halib Road with a length of 300 km with two
lanes with two ways of a width of 3.0 m for each lane and with dust
shoulders of 300 m for each side and design capacity of 6500 vehicles
per day .
5. Aswan/AlAlakyValleyroadwithlengthof160k,twolaneswithwidth
of 3.0 m for each lane, dust shoulders of 300 m at each side and design
capacity for 2500 vehicles per day.